Office Infrastructure Quotes & Sayings

Office reformers are pulled in two directions. They either follow Frederick Taylor (the father of scientific management) and the successive waves of management scientists who thought that with enough overhead cameras, spreadsheets, computing power, and analysis, they could "solve" the organization and its problems. Or they follow the dreamers of the 1970s and '80s, who, inspired by the cybernetic-counterculture movement, thought that by getting rid of that same organizational infrastructure, they could free workers to reach their full potential by embracing chaos, complexity, new technology, or all three. — Ray Fisman

Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision - a way to be more successful - they have to remain nimble enough to take it. — Eric Ries

Hey-ho, it's raining inside: it isn't my fault and there's nothing I can do about it, but sit it out. But the sun may well come out tomorrow and when it does, I shall take full advantage. — Stephen Fry

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. — Jane Austen

It is so delightful to be of enough consequence to be arrested, — Karen Abbott

I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things. — Ed Harris

A partner who rolls her eyes, sighs, turns away, sends a very toxic message. — Steve Biddulph

We must be happy with what we got when we are in pursuit of what we want. — Jim Rohn

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. — Thomas Malthus

Education is no substitute for intelligence. — Frank Herbert

Don't commit suicide, because you might change your mind two weeks later. — Art Buchwald

A Congressional Budget Office study estimated that gulf energy infrastructure repair costs will be between $18 billion and $31 billion, just from the damages the hurricane created. — Mark Foley

That's why I don't understand why actors become arrogant and are completely unapproachable - because as an actor, the most valuable thing you can do is talk to people and hear their stories, because it'll all come in handy. — Daniel Radcliffe

You are not as insignificant as you have often been told, nor are you any more significant than you have often told yourself. — Maureen Moss

Forcing everyone into the office every day is an organizational SPoF (Single Point of Failure). If the office loses power or Internet or air conditioning, it's no longer functional as a place to do work. If a company doesn't have any training or infrastructure to work around that, it means it's going to be unavailable to its customers. — David Heinemeier Hansson

The Bush administration, they had two blue ribbon commissions about infrastructure finance that recommended a lot more money, and additionally the gas tax being increased. We couldn't get them to accept being able to move forward. Since President Obama's been in office, there has been, to be charitable, a lack of enthusiasm for raising the gas tax. — Ray LaHood